Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here Page #4

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He just Looked SO blank.

He was a Living with a Whole Sort of Community of People Who Were

very much Believing acid CAN Release you and, you know,

Get to the Truth and All That stuff,

... and He took too much.

And He Went up on stage

and He just Stood there for Long stretches

and he'd play the guitar for a bit and then he'd stop.

He HAD SO much Damage Done, Because acid, That's What IT does to you.

Too much acid literally Will Fry your Brains.

# Nobody Knows where you are

# How near or How far

# Shine on, you Crazy Diamond. #

We Were Unable to help Syd and Probably, I will not deliberately Say,

but HAD Our Own interests at heart, and so consequently

Probably tried to hold on to HIM for far longer than We Should have Done.

Syd left the band in 1,968.

four hundred ninety-six

Only Syd was around for one That Record, IT was a tiny Piece.

It was a very important piece, it was the opening piece

of the Pink Floyd Story, and IT May well be That Pink Floyd

Would Never have Started and Never Would have Carried on

and nothing Would have happened. We will never know.

He was a hindrance to the Real Band in many Ways.

Having That said, We simply wouldn't have got to where we got to.

There Would be no Dark Side Of The Moon if Syd

hadn't Been around to us on Take That first major Step.

I found IT SO upsetting working with Syd in Those days.

It was Like Trying to ... Sort of Seeing someone drowning

and Trying to pull out Them, but They kept on slip ... you know,

the Hand Slipped away All the time.

We Were Hoping That IT Would be Therapeutic for HIM

and help HIM Might Come back.

Trying ... IT was Like Trying to Bring HIM back.

"Come back, Syd, Come back."

And there was likely to be Never any way back, and That is ...

.. quite awful to Think About.

MUSIC GUITAR:

# You reached for the Secret too soon

# You Cried for the moon

# Shine on you Crazy Diamond. #

And of Course, They loved Their ooohs,

We just SO oooh'd Them,

Saying, "Shine on, you Crazy Diamond," and just oooh'd

the rest of the way. They loved ooohs.

and Carlena Venetta, Soulful and Being Americans,

was a wonderful Contrast

I did not know Them from a bar of soap,

and I didn't like their music in the beginning.

It was All in a Minor Key, All IT was very Low,

Everything was oohs and ahhs and. Who are these people?

Thought I was Meticulous Motown, but this was the Most Meticulous

four musicians that I had ever seen work before.

And something in me Told My Head, "Venetta,

" you're here for a reason, you must enjoy this music,

"you must Get on with this Music, cos You're here,

They Managed Their job to do without Getting involved in the Band

Politics, SO Those two very Were Good at just ..

You know, We All Might be furious with each Other

Dinner at the table or in the Car on the way to the Show or whatever,

and they'd just be very, very relaxed and just Get on with IT.

And They Always beautifully Sang.

One of My fondest, fondest Memories of Being with Pink Floyd

recording Shine On You Crazy Diamond,

Because That was the Only thing That We Actually got to Record with Them,

as Opposed to Singing-Performing Dark Side Of The Moon.

That was the So Great About IT thing, We Actually got on a Record.

# Shine on, you Crazy diamond. #

Welcome To The Machine.

They just wanted bits of ad-hoc animation bunged into the Show

Willy nilly. And, of Course,

I HAD My Little Team of animators Who are Strictly Trained to work

to a Track, and without a Track, They do not know What to do.

And I Used to go and tell Roger this,

and He said, "It does not Matter About a Track, just let Them do something."

I Assume He made ??All That Heard having spherical stuff

the VCS3 throbbing at the Beginning of Welcome To The Machine.

Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom ... All of That stuff.

HE CLICKS AND WHIRS

When it came to Welcome To The Machine,

I Think Roger was really Getting into HIS synthesisers.

So, hence you have all these different effects.

I Mean, some of These noises are, to me, just futuristic.

I loved that machine.

I Used a Lot IT back in the Day.

I've still got one. It's still good for wind and explosions.

throbbing

See, and the throb

Basically What is Roger Would have Played on Bass.

He adds to IT later on with the Real Bass.

throbbing AND BASS

The Only Real Instruments That are really on there are

Dave's acoustics.

'One, two, Three, four ...'

GUITAR:

DRUMS:

To Add a bit More to the aggression of the Song,

and the timps Cymbals Were added.

It just sounded very Angry Like a Song to me, Always did.

Very Angry.

Somebody That was something out of Getting Their system.

# Welcome, My Son

# Welcome to the Machine

# Where have you Been?

# It's All We know right where you've been

This Particular Creature I Created,

I Remember Showing IT to the Gang,

Sort of Who Went Along with Everything I said at That Point,

They did not Correct Sort of anything.

Roger, particularly, That Has this idea

if you hire an artist,

you do not try and Change What That artist does,

you hire an artist for What He does.

Gerry Has a very Similar kind of bolshie Attitude ...

Towards All status quo and All the Powers That be That I do.

# So, welcome ...

# To the Machine. #

And the sea of blood that comes towards us

and crashes through the steel towers.

God Knows What's About IT.

But I Thought IT was a very kind of a strong Image, a sea of Blood.

I really did Piece by Piece Add the animation, so when I'd done

the sea of Blood, said Roger Probably We need IT a bit longer.

So then the sea of Blood HAD to Turn into hands, Praying,

grasping hands,

kind of lost Hopeless hands, I suppose,

Searching for some god or some reason to IT All.

You Could Say That To Welcome The Machine

is Only About My Experience in the Music Industry ...

It's not, IT's About All of Our experience

in the Face of That monstrous,

That thing Grinding Chews us up and spits us out.

In the Meetings That Storm and I HAD, one of the Topics

Somebody was Getting Burnt in the Business, you know,

Which was an Expression at the time. "Man, I've Been Burned."

You know, SO, what more logical, kind of, concept, if you like,

Would be than two Men shaking hands and is one of Them Getting Burnt?

And both We Went, "Yeah!" Maybe Because IT was SO outrageous.

And These are the days before computers,

SO IT Meant Setting a MAN on Fire, Which We did.

Yeah, IT was not very Difficult. Issuing Orders from the Bunker,

IT's really Easy. "Over the top, Men."

Anyway, Done That was for Real in a Studio lot in Hollywood.

What Could be More than absent a Studio Lot?

I believe IT was a Warner Brothers Lot .

I was doing a Lot

of Fire work in Those days,

and I HAD the Special Suits

All this stuff and

for full Envelop Fire, but a partial is basically,

you know, a safe Pretty, Pretty Easy one to do.

And ... In most cases.

He HAD ... a Team of 20 people around him with fire extinguishers,

Ready to Deal with any emergency.

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